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(07-26-2016, 01:07 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: So let's get rid of the career politicians - bye Obama, Clintons, Gore, Bernie, Kerry, Bush, and most of the Dem candidates we've had recently (and plenty of Repubs).  Get rid of the silver spoons if you want, and most of the same again and many more.

But there have been plenty of successful business people who have run, and the vast majority (save Trump) had to work their way up a company....yes, including Romney.  To say no one has run that ever held a "middle class job" is demonstrably false.  Most anyone who isn't a career politician like Clinton, or trust fund baby like Bush, started their career at good 'ol fashioned entry level jobs just like you and me.

A middle manager or factory line worker is not capable of running a country.  Sorry, it sounds like a nice idea, but IMO the only people capable of the job are career politicians and Execs who've run large companies. This is readily obvious once you see and understand the gigantic leap from even Sr. Mgmt to the C-suite, even at smaller companies with just a few hundred million in revenues.

The job calls for significant Exec experience.  If you want Joe the Plumber, ok I'm sure he'll make a fine Representative or maybe even a Senator....but no business being near the Oval Office.

You make a lot of good points but I can't completely agree.  I believe there are PLENTY of people out there with the good sense, intelligence, intuition, understanding and ability to learn and process quickly to be able to be POTUS or CEO of a major corporation.  If you ask me, you're just believing what the people in those positions want you to believe.  They want you to think only a genius can do what they do and that is patently untrue.

The biggest thing that stands in the way of ever knowing what a regular person could do is the Washington game.   You must be an insider.  It's a self sustaining system, just like the courts.  Go to court without a lawyer and see what happens to you.

That's what pisses me off about the way Trump has conducted himself.  The opportunity was there for an outsider to be elected.  People were hungry for it and he was too stupid to take advantage of it.  He couldn't dial back the crazy.  This is how bad Hillary is.  She will struggle to beat the worst candidate ever.

So, the upshot of what he's done is that no one will take an outsider seriously again.